DS9 is so good. I'm finally working through it for the first time and am nearing the end of season 3. Way more consistent than even TNG, and only the Dax episodes ever really fall flat (and even some of those are good! But let us never speak of the phase-shifting planet of love again). It's a great ensemble and feels way more modern than any of the other Treks. You can really see Ron Moore getting himself geared up for what he really blew open with BSG when you get gritty, subtle stuff like Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast.

Also, I always thought Andrew Robinson was a pretty lousy actor, based on Hellraiser and Dirty Harry, but slap some Cardassian makeup on him and he's tremendous. Garak for president.

Quark does kind of a subtle heel turn in season 4. They start writing him less as charmingly unlikeable and more like "wow, this guy really is an asshole" , though he still has his moments of sympathy. The payoff to the Quark story p much needs to be him doing something insanely heroic and sacrificing himself for his friends. Hopefully that happens.

Why don't people count Search for Spock as one of the "good" ones? Yeah, it was probably the weakest entry in the mini-trilogy that 2, 3, and 4 make; but I'd still argue that it's a hell of a lot better than 1, 5, and maybe all of TNG's movies.

I take it back. Upon a rewatch, The Search for Spock is worse than it should've been. There's a lot of high points, especially McCoy possessed by Spock, but the movie drags horribly in the middle. Way too much time is killed just wandering around Genesis and watching the completely uninteresting young mindless Spock growing. Even Christopher Lloyd's badassness as the villain (he was the first man to ever speak Klingon!) is dimmed when you realize that parts 2 and 6 did very similar villains and got much more out of them. Chekov and Uhura get fuck-all to do, and I'd add Sulu onto that list too if not for the fun "don't call me tiny" moment. The special effects also looked shabbier than in the other Trek films, like they had less money than usual.

Not gonna be a big deal with the general public, but having read a lot about the making of the ST films, Bennett really deserves some credit for saving the franchise from both disposable sequels and the batshit crazy plots Roddenberry wanted to do. The franchise owes a lot to both him and Nicholas Meyer for re energizing the series after the bloated mess that was TMP.

They took 13 paragraphs to basically say "there's gonna be a new Trek show... and we have absolutely NO other details to share at this time". Press releases are the fucking worst.

The new show's runner is Alex Kurtzman, which also doesn't exactly fill me with anticipation. He's written THREE Michael Bay movies (including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the dirty cocksucker) and most of his other credits aren't things that I find impressive.

They took 13 paragraphs to basically say "there's gonna be a new Trek show... and we have absolutely NO other details to share at this time". Press releases are the fucking worst.

Sign o' the times. TV shows take an hour to tell you a 5-minute story, movies cram an entire franchise's worth of information into a 2-hour block, and a property that was just as much about political maneuvering as it was a hammy actor sticking his dick in green strange is now going to be a generic action property.

Sure, there’s nothing wrong with Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu — “Orange Is the New Black” and “Transparent” are terrific shows you can only catch on those services. And I reckon most TV watchers already subscribe to one of them.

But the final frontier is apparently something called CBS All Access. That’s where the new untitled “Star Trek” series will call home, a CBS-only streaming service no one uses that costs users a whopping $5.99 a month.

I cut the first film a break with the action stuff because I knew they had to attract a wide audience, and even with the second film understood there were certain plot and character elements they felt they had to do to just get them out of the way, but the third film of the reboot looking like this... I might just end up sticking with the new TV series.

I love STO but its too gear heavy, where to really succeed in the later chapters, you have to get ship and character gear sets... and if you take more than say a month off of the game, the stuff you use with your ships does not work anymore.

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Imagine winning the lottery of life and being a rich, young, handsome and influential member of the Hollywood elite then realizing you are about to die by being crushed by your own car because you left it in neutral.

"Later this month, Star Trek Beyond will become the 13th Star Trek feature film, but bringing the franchise to the big screen wasn’t always an easy process. In the ’70s, it almost didn’t happen at all. Some of series creator Gene Roddenberry‘s ideas for the initial Trek movie were far wilder than anything in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. For starters, one of Roddenberry’s early pitches would have placed Admiral James T. Kirk in conflict with Jesus Christ.

That revelation came from The Hollywood Reporter‘s excerpt from Edward Gross and Mark. A. Altman’s upcoming book, The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek – The First 25 Years. As initially envisioned by Roddenberry, Admiral Kirk and the former crew of the Enterprise would be reunited when an entity heading for Earth claimed to be God. And of course, one of the forms that God would take was the familiar image of Jesus Christ."

Roddenberry had all sorts of wacky ideas his producers and writers either ignored or talked him out of. "The God Thing", AKA the Enterprise encounters God movie concept was something he kicked around around ever since TOS went off the air. He supposedly kept lobbying for one of the TOS films to involve the crew going back in time on Earth to undo the Klingons preventing JFK's assassination (which somehow led to them reigning supreme in the 23rd century). The would end with Spock shooting Kennedy himself to restore the timeline.

It looks ok I guess but i have no interest in a star trek series that is set in the past. If it isn't set after DS9 I probably won't watch. I'm still sad we never got any DS9 movies and instead got increasingly terrible TNG movies.